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In marking twenty years since a planning inspector rejected Coppergate Riverside plans for the Eye of York (The fight against ‘Shoppergate’,…

He was the first but was followed later by the highly regarded Dave who looked after the park in an exemplary fashion. Dave was retired by the council in 2017 and the post of park-keeper abolished as a cost-cutting measure. Dave likewise lived in the Lodge above the café which had been provided in the original plans for the park to provide accommodation for a resident park-keeper. There has been no park-keeper since Dave and the park is now looked after by The Friends with heavy mainte...

AFTER years of discussion and debate, work is finally beginning on the transformation of York Central – the huge, 178-acre brownfield site behind York Railway Station. True, all that is happening so far is some work to improve the Millennium Green on Leeman Road. But that is, actually, a part of the York Central scheme: in 2018, the Millennium Green Trust agreed to allow some land at the Green to be used during construction work on the huge site. So what has been happening this week rea...

Yet tomorrow City of York Council is expected to double that number in one day. The Freedom is given to those who have rendered eminent services to the city. That is certainly true of Alison Sinclair and Delma Tomlin, whose award of the honour is set to be to confirmed tomorrow at a special full council meeting. Alison, 84, is a former civil servant who came to York 40 years ago to be near family, and has stayed ever since. She studied at the University of York, became an expert on archit...